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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Tuesday, October 9, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Stepping Up Appearances Amid 2020 Speculation. <#S1>

• In KY6 Race, Biden To Campaign For McGrath This Week, Trump For Barr.
<#S2>

• Biden To Rally Support For Donnelly During Oct. 12 Visit To Hammond,
Indiana. <#S3>

• Biden Maintaining His Visibility In South Carolina. <#S4>

• Biden Backs Davids’ Bid To Unseat Yoder In KS3. <#S5>

• Returning To “The View,” Meghan McCain Says Biden, Lieberman “Like Uncles
To Me.” <#S6>

• Trump Says He’d Quickly Dispatch Biden In Fight. <#S7>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Says Kavanaugh “Proven Innocent,” Apologizes To Him “On Behalf Of
Our Nation.” <#S8>

• Progressives Weigh Kavanaugh Impeachment, Effort To Add Justices. <#S9>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• UN Report Warns Time Running Out To Reverse Effects Of Climate Change.
<#S10>

• Media Analyses: Pompeo Has Tense Meeting With Chinese Officials. <#S11>

• Trump “Concerned” By Journalist’s Disappearance Inside Saudi Consulate.
<#S12>

• US Rejects Iran’s ICJ Claim To Recover $1.75B In Frozen Assets. <#S13>

• US Student Barred From Entering Israel Over BDS Activism. <#S14>

• Lavrov Denies Russians Arrested By Dutch Authorities Are Spies. <#S15>

• China Moves To Shore Up Economy Amid US Trade War. <#S16>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Media Analyses: Trump Enthusiastically Received By Police Chiefs In
Florida. <#S17>

• In Visit To Iowa, Trump To Announce Lifting Of Ban On Summer E15 Sales.
<#S18>

• Trump Says He Had “Good Talk” With Rosenstein, Doesn’t Plan To Fire Him.
<#S19>

• Ryan Predicts “Big Fight” Over Trump’s Border Wall After Midterms. <#S20>

• Google Shutting Down Google+ After Data Exposure Uncovered. <#S21>

• Obama Endorses Recent College Graduate For Connecticut State Senate.
<#S22>

• Clintons To Launch Speaking Tour After Midterms. <#S23>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Study: Medicaid Cancer Care Comparable To Or Better Than Private
Insurance. <#S24>

• NCI Grants $6.3M To Baylor For Research On Prostate, Breast Cancer
Disparities. <#S25>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S26>

• Washington Post. <#S27>
Biden in the News
Biden Stepping Up Appearances Amid 2020 Speculation.

Politico
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(10/5, Siders) reported that that “one month before the 2020 presidential
primary begins in earnest,” former Vice President Joe Biden “continues to
lead in early polls,” is “ramping up his schedule of midterm campaign
appearances and, perhaps more significantly, meeting with donors.” Politico
added, “This [past] week, before appearing at a rally” in California on
“Thursday for several House candidates,” Biden “raised money for his
American Possibilities PAC at two fundraisers in the Los Angeles area. The
host of the first event, film studio executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, was
critical to then-Sen. Barack Obama’s fundraising success in the 2008
presidential primary. And while Katzenberg has met with many prospective
2020 candidates, Biden’s appearance in Beverly Hills served as a reminder
of the connections he still can tap into.”

        Under the headline “Dem 2020 Primary Season Is Unofficially
Underway,” The Hill
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(10/6, Parnes) reported, “Prospective Democratic candidates hoping to
launch a White House bid will be out in full force campaigning for midterm
candidates” over “these next 30 days,” as this fall’s “campaigns are a
tryout of sorts for 2020, strategists say.” The Hill, which focuses on a
number of potential 2020 Democratic hopefuls, added that Biden “begins his
midterm push later in the week, on Friday, when he will travel to Indiana
to campaign for Sen. Joe Donnelly, a moderate Democrat who could get a
much-needed boost by a visit from the former vice president. He’ll also
campaign alongside retired Marine Lt. Col. Amy McGrath, the Democratic
nominee for Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, at a local fish fry.”
In KY6 Race, Biden To Campaign For McGrath This Week, Trump For Barr.

The AP
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(10/5, Beam) reported that President Trump and former Vice President Joe
Biden are slated to stump this “week in Kentucky, with each seeking to
sway” KY6 Rep. Andy Barr’s (R) reelection race against retired Marine
fighter pilot Amy McGrath (D). The AP added, “Trump’s campaign said Friday
it will hold a rally in Richmond, Kentucky, on Oct. 13.” A day earlier,
“Biden will campaign with McGrath at a community fish fry at Bath County
High School in Owingsville, Kentucky.” McClatchy
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(10/5, Clark) reports that Biden’s appearance will give “McGrath’s campaign
a considerable boost.” The former Vice President, “who called McGrath
shortly after her come-from-behind primary victory in May to congratulate
her, said he was looking forward to campaigning with her. ‘Amy McGrath has
dedicated her life to service to this country,’ Biden said. ‘We need more
men and women of character like Amy in Congress.’”

        The CNHI News Service
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(10/5, Ellis) reported that McGrath “called Biden an American patriot who
has served the country throughout his public career. ‘I’m so honored that
Vice President Biden will join me in Bath County next week and have a
chance to meet the hardworking people from our rural counties,’ she said.
‘The Vice President is an American patriot who has dedicated his life to
serving our country and bettering the lives of all Americans. We are
holding a community fish fry in his honor and all are welcome.’”

        The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal
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(10/5, Kobin) reported, “The Barr-McGrath race is one of the most closely
watched in the country as Democrats hope to flip the House.” The article
added, “Biden has been campaigning for other Democratic candidates lately
as he also considers a potential presidential run in 2020. Trump bashed
Biden at a rally in Tennessee [last] week, calling him ‘one percent
Biden.’”
Biden To Rally Support For Donnelly During Oct. 12 Visit To Hammond,
Indiana.

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Chicago (10/6, Neveau) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “will
appear at a rally in northwest Indiana to drum up support for Senator Joe
Donnelly in his re-election campaign. According to Donnelly’s campaign,”
Biden “will appear at an Early Vote rally with the senator at the Hammond
Civic Center [in Hammond, Indiana] on Oct. 12, and tickets will be made
available on a first come, first serve basis for those interested in
attending.”
Biden Maintaining His Visibility In South Carolina.

The AP
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(10/8, Kinnard) reports that as former Vice President Joe Biden mulls a
2020 White House run, he “is continuing to keep his name prominent in early
voting states like South Carolina as voters there go to the midterm polls.”
Yesterday, Biden endorsed small business owner Rosalyn Glenn’s (D) bid for
South Carolina state treasurer. The AP adds, “This is at least the fourth
South Carolina race this year into which Biden has waded, although he’s had
public affiliations with the other two candidates for years. Biden voiced
support earlier this year for the state Senate bid of Columbia attorney
Dick Harpootlian.” Biden “has also announced support for Democratic
gubernatorial nominee James Smith, for whom he’ll help raise funds in
Charleston later this month. He’s also backing Joe Cunningham in South
Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.”

        The Columbia (SC) State
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(10/8, Barton) reported that in response to the endorsement, Glenn said,
“Vice President Biden is one of the most respected leaders in America. He
is universally admired on both sides of the aisle for his integrity and his
unbending commitment to serving all Americans, both qualities which I
personally espouse.” The Columbia (SC) State
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(10/6, Schecter) reported that Biden “is returning to South Carolina on
Oct. 13 to campaign for James Smith,” who is bidding to oust Gov. Henry
McMaster (R). Biden “will campaign for Smith early Saturday in Charleston,
said campaign spokesman, Brad Warthen. It was not immediately clear where
in Charleston Biden and Smith will stop.”

        The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier
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(10/7, Byrd) reported, “The Smith campaign confirmed Sunday that Biden will
be coming to the Holy City next Saturday morning, where he will later
headline a private fundraising event for Smith.” The Post and Courier
added, “The private Oct. 13 event is Biden’s way of cashing in a political
rain check of sorts, since he had previously planned to headline a late
September fundraising event for Smith in Charleston but scheduling
conflicts made Biden unable to attend.”
Biden Backs Davids’ Bid To Unseat Yoder In KS3.

The Topeka (KS) Capital-Journal
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(10/8, Carpenter) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday
backed attorney Sharice Davids’ (D) bid to unseat KS3 Rep. Kevin Yoder (R),
saying in a statement, “The people of Kansas deserve a representative who
understands their concerns and shares their struggles. Sharice lives those
struggles herself and has focused her career on creating opportunities for
middle-class families to get ahead.”
Returning To “The View,” Meghan McCain Says Biden, Lieberman “Like Uncles
To Me.”

In an online article, ABC News
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(10/8) reported that Meghan McCain “made an emotional return on Monday to
the co-host table at ‘The View’ in the wake of her father’s death in
August.” McCain “went around the table, thanking each co-host for their
specific acts of kindness, from prayerful texts and booze-filled nights,
and she extended special thanks to some other famous figures, pointing to
her faith and her father’s close friends. ‘God is real I wouldn’t be here
without my faith,’ McCain said. ‘I also wouldn’t be here without Joe Biden
and Joe Lieberman.’” McCain said that former Vice President Joe Biden and
ex-Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) “are like ‘uncles to me’ and she said they
‘carried me throughout the experience.’”

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(10/8, story 10, 0:50, Muir) also reported on its broadcast about McCain’s
return to the program, saying that she “echo[ed] her father’s final words
about American democracy and a divided nation.” McCain: “My father’s final
farewell address, he said, we’re Americans and we never surrender, and we
can never surrender to what is happening in the country right now. I
understand how divided and how scared a lot of people are, and it looks
like the fabric of democracy is fraying. We do not surrender. I’m not
surrendering. You don’t do it, either, so, you have to join me in not
surrendering, okay? Because I’m still here fighting, and I want all of you
to fight with me.”
Trump Says He’d Quickly Dispatch Biden In Fight.

The Hill
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(10/6, Axelrod) reported that Trump said during a Saturday rally in Topeka,
Kansas, that if he got in a fight with former Vice President Joe Biden, it
“would not last long.” Trump said, “Remember he challenged me to a fight.
‘I’d like to take him behind the barn.’ I’d love that. That wouldn’t last
long. That would not last long. That wouldn’t last long.” Drawing from The
Hill article, Newsweek
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(10/7, Porter) said that Trump “then reportedly pointed to his forearm and
suggested that Biden would quickly end up floored in a confrontation. ‘He’s
down, and he’ll never get up,’ Trump then said.”
Leading the News
Trump Says Kavanaugh “Proven Innocent,” Apologizes To Him “On Behalf Of Our
Nation.”

During a ceremonial White House swearing in for Justice Kavanaugh,
President Trump apologized to him for the “pain and suffering” he and his
family endured during the Senate confirmation battle. USA Today
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(10/8, Wolf, Fritze) notes Trump said, “What happened to the Kavanaugh
family violates every notion of fairness, decency and due process. ... You,
sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent.” USA Today adds that
“for his part, Kavanaugh said he would assume the role ‘with gratitude and
no bitterness.’” Politico
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(10/8, Forgey) quotes Trump as further saying, “On behalf of our nation, I
want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible
pain and suffering you have been forced to endure.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/8, story 4, 1:20, Holt) reported “Trump continued his victory lap,” and
“with that battle won,” he “went further than he ever has before in
criticizing the sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh, calling
them a hoax.” ABC World News Tonight
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(10/8, story 5, 2:35, Muir) showed Trump saying earlier Monday, “Now
they’re thinking of impeaching a brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing
wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the
Democrats.” The CBS Evening News
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(10/8, story 5, 2:10, Reid) noted Trump also said, “The way they really
tortured him and his family. I thought it was a disgrace. ... I think a lot
of Democrats are going to be voting Republican on November sixth.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/8, Bierman) casts Trump as injecting “a sharp political edge
to...Kavanaugh’s ceremonial swearing-in on Monday, undermining the new
Supreme Court member’s attempts to assert his independence from the bitter
partisanship that marred his confirmation process.” The AP
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(10/8, Sherman, Colvin) says the ceremony “could have been a unifying
moment for the nation,” and the Washington Post
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(10/8, Wagner) disagrees with Trump’s assessment of Kavanaugh as “proven
innocent,” reporting that “in fact, no definitive conclusions were reached
during the confirmation process” other than the fact that the nation was
“left bitterly divided over who was telling the truth, and Kavanaugh was
confirmed in a razor-thin vote.”

        Fox News
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(10/8, Re) reported that “to sustained, raucous applause, Trump entered the
event flanked by Kavanaugh and former Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy,
who hired Kavanaugh as a law clerk from 1993 to 1994. All sitting Supreme
Court justices were in attendance, as well as Kavanaugh’s parents, wife,
and two daughters.” Breitbart
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(10/8, Spiering) notes “the entire room of Trump supporters and staff
applauded the entire Kavanaugh family.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/8, Boyer) quotes Kavanaugh as stating, “My approach to judging remains
the same. ... A good judge must be an umpire, a neutral and impartial
decider. A judge must interpret the law, not make the law. My approach to
life also remains the same. I will continue to volunteer to serve the least
fortunate among us. I will continue to coach, teach and tutor.” Kavanaugh
also “thanked Mr. Trump for his ‘unwavering’ support.” The Washington
Examiner
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(10/8, Quinn) notes the Justice also said, “The Supreme Court is an
institution of law. It is not a partisan or political institution. ... The
justices do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. We do not caucus in
separate rooms. The Supreme Court is a team of nine, and I will always be a
team player on the team of nine.”

        Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
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(10/8), “In the face of one of the most despicable, disgusting political
hit jobs ever in our history, Judge Brett Kavanaugh just made history. From
the beginning the day that Justice Kennedy announced his retirement on this
program, I warned you all of this would happen. ... It is the Democratic
playbook. We get this all the time. Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and now
they did it to Justice Kavanaugh and his two young girls and his wife and
his family. What this is about is about power. The left will stop at
nothing when it comes to blocking a nomination or winning an election.”

        *Trump Praises McConnell, Grassley, Flake, Collins. *Politico
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(10/8, Forgey) reports that Trump said of Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, “We are joined tonight by a leader who has never wavered in his
support and devotion to the rule of law and to Brett Kavanaugh’s elevation.
... He’s worked very, very hard and he truly has done just an incredible
and wonderful job for the American people.” Trump also “quipped,” “I think
that’s the biggest hand he’s ever received. ... They don’t get it, Mitch.
You’re great. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.” The President “went on
to thank Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), as
well as the other Republican members of that panel – including Jeff Flake
of Arizona,” and “singled out for praise Republican Sen. Susan Collins.”

        *Trump: Blumenthal “A Fraudster When It Came To Vietnam.” *The Daily
Caller
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(10/8, Johnson) reports that also yesterday, Trump “attacked Democrat Sen.
Richard Blumenthal at the White House Monday for his treatment of Justice
Brett Kavanaugh.” Said Trump, “I’ve never seen anything like it. From the
leaks of important documents to the statements they made to watching
Blumenthal, who was a fraudster when it came to Vietnam. What he did was
horrible.” The DC adds “Blumenthal falsely claimed multiple times that he
served in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. He later apologized.”

        *Trump Mention Of Kavanaugh Sparks Loud Applause From Crowd Of
Police Chiefs. *WBBH-TV
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Fort Myers, FL (10/8, 4:09 p.m. EDT) reported that during his visit to
Florida to address a group of police chiefs, Trump “touched on everything
from the hurricane approaching to Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the
Supreme Court. In fact, it was that announcement that drew one of the
biggest applauses...from these police officers.” Townhall
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(10/8, O'Brien) also recounted that Trump said “more evidence of the
administration’s support of law enforcement...is the confirmation
of...Kavanaugh.” Trump vowed the new justice “will be a ‘faithful defender
of the rule of law’” and “paused for a loud applause.”

        *Trump: Allegations “Brought About By People Who Are Evil.”
*The Washington
Examiner
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(10/8, Donachie) reports that during his speech in Florida, Trump “said
Monday that those who levied allegations of sexual assault against Supreme
Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh are ‘evil.’” Said Trump, “He’s a great
person, and it was very, very unfair what happened to him. False charges,
false accusations, horrible statements that were totally untrue that he
knew nothing about. Terms that he probably never heard in his life. ... He
never even heard of these terms. It was a disgraceful situation, brought
about by people that are evil. And he toughed it out.”

        *Gardner’s Family Doxxed, Wife Sent Beheading Video. *USA Today
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(10/7, Cummings) reported that Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) office confirmed
that the names and addresses of his family members were “publicly shared
online, and his wife was sent a text with a video attached, which showed a
graphic beheading.” USA Today says it was unclear if the text to Gardner’s
wife and the release of his family’s information were related or if they
were linked to his vote to confirm Kavanaugh.

        *McConnell Ready To Move Another High Court Nominee, Even In 2020. *The
Washington Examiner
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(10/8, Caralle) reports that Senate Majority Leader McConnell “is signaling
that he is ready and prepared to move another Supreme Court nominee from
President Trump through Senate confirmation – including during the 2020
presidential election season, if another seat were to become available
then.” The Washington Post
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(10/8, Viebeck) says McConnell “signaled Monday that he would help fill a
high-court vacancy if one emerges when President Trump is up for reelection
in 2020.” At a news conference in Louisville, McConnell “said his decision
to block Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, was based on a tradition
that opposition parties in control of the Senate do not confirm Supreme
Court nominees during presidential election years. He claimed the precedent
only applies when different parties control the Senate and the White House
— leaving open the possibility he would help advance a Trump nominee in
2020 if Republicans still hold a majority in the Senate.”

        *CBS’ Dickerson Concedes McConnell’s Claim About Election-Year
Judicial Picks Was Correct. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/7, Lim) reported McConnell “was correct when he said Sunday a Supreme
Court nominee had not been appointed during a presidential election year
when the White House and Congress were controlled by opposing parties in
more than a century, according to CBS News’ John Dickerson.” McConnell and
Dickerson “clashed Sunday during a segment on the network’s ‘Face the
Nation’ program when the anchor pressed the Kentucky Republican on whether
he was to blame for an increasingly partisan approach to filling vacancies
on the country’s highest court.”

        Dickerson later tweeted
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“The @senatemajldr &I had a disagreement about 1956. He said, since 1880,
no SCOTUS nominee had been named & confirmed in an election year when the
president and Congress were in opposite parties. I said in 1956 Ike (R)
nominated Brennan. Democrats controlled the Senate.” However, “Brennan was
a recess appointment [sic] in ‘56 not confirmed by Democrats ‘till ‘57.
McConnell: correct! But: recess appointment & confirmations in election
years undermine idea it was Sen. norm justices couldn’t [sic] be confirmed
b/c voters had to have their say— the Garland rationale.”

        *Graham: “Nothing” Left “Won’t Do To Maintain Power.” *Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/8), “It’s about outcomes for our friends on the left. There is nothing
they won’t do to maintain power. There is nothing they won’t do to take it
back when they lose it. Susan Collins represented the best in the country.
She thought about what she did. She explained what she did and she made a
reasoned decision. The people on the other side were going to destroy
Kavanaugh if he let them. To the extent that my intervention helped a good
man who was being railroaded and humiliated, I am pleased. To President
trump thanks for sticking by Brett. To Brett, thank for having the courage
to stay in there when a lot of people would quit. I am grateful to Brett
Kavanaugh and President Trump.”

        *Kavanaugh First Justice To Hire All Female Clerks. *The New York
Post
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(10/8, Fredericks) reports, “With the controversy still simmering over his
Supreme Court confirmation, Brett Kavanaugh has hit the ground running –
and became the first high court justice to hire all women as his law
clerks.”

        *CNN Analyst: Move “Felt Like Pandering.” *The Daily Caller
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(10/8, Morefield) reports “CNN political analyst Joan Walsh on Monday said
that...Kavanaugh’s decision to hire four female law clerks ‘felt like
pandering’ to her.” Said Walsh, “s talked about that before. It felt a
little bit like pandering to me. As I said before, there’s not really
anything new,” and “I don’t know that it’s going to work to make women who
are still upset about the treatment of Dr. Blasey Ford feel any better.”

        *Daily Caller : Kanavaugh Has Already Hired As Many Black Clerks As
Ginsburg Since 1993. *Under the headline, “In His First Day On The Job,
Kavanaugh Hired As Many Black Law Clerks As RBG Has In Her Entire Tenure,”
the Daily Caller
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(10/8) reports that Kavanaugh “has hired a black law clerk for his new
chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court, matching Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s
record of African-American clerkship hiring during her tenure on the
nation’s highest judicial tribunal.” According to the Daily Caller, “Since
joining the high court in 1993, Ginsburg has hired over 100 law clerks,
just one of whom is black.”

        *Alaska Republican Party To Consider Reprimanding Murkowski. *The AP
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(10/8, Bohrer) reports that Alaska Republican Party leaders will consider
reprimanding Sen, Lisa Murkowski (R) over her vote against confirming
Kavanaugh. Chairman Tuckerman Babcock “says the committee could decide to
issue a statement. Or he says it could withdraw support of Murkowski,
encourage party officials to look for a replacement and ask that she not
seek re-election as a Republican.”

        *Cramer Criticism Of #MeToo Draws Tearful Heitkamp Response. *The New
York Times
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(10/8, Martin) reports that the in “latest provocation” from Rep. Kevin
Cramer (R-ND), who is challenging Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Cramer
criticized the #MeToo movement, saying, “That you’re just supposed to
believe somebody because they said it happened.” Cramer added that his
wife, daughters, mother and mother-in-law “cannot understand this movement
toward victimization.” Heitkamp “reacted angrily,” saying, “I think it’s
wonderful that his wife has never had an experience, and good for her, and
it’s wonderful his mom hasn’t. ... My mom did. And I think it affected my
mom her whole life. And it didn’t make her less strong.” A tearful Heitkamp
added, “And I want you to put this in there, it did not make my mom less
strong that she was a victim. She got stronger and she made us strong. And
to suggest that this movement doesn’t make women strong and stronger is
really unfortunate.”

        *Comstock Says Male Democratic Aide Or Lawmakers Leaked Ford
Letter. *The Hill
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(10/8, Gstalter) reports that Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) said on Fox News
Outnumbered Overtime
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Monday that “a male Democratic lawmaker or staffer leaked the confidential
letter from Christine Blasey Ford detailing sexual assault allegations
against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” Comstock said, “The
confidentiality of Dr. Ford was brutality violated by a Democrat staff or
member. ... And I like to think that it wasn’t a woman who did that. I
think it was probably a male staffer or a male member because you don’t do
that to somebody who’s a victim and victimize her all over again by not
allowing her to consent about going forward.”

        *Vice Reporter: Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters Were Paid. *The Washington
Times
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(10/8, Richardson) reports that Vice DC bureau chief Shawna Thomas, who was
“embedded with anti-Kavanaugh protesters says that some protesters were in
fact paid, as President Trump has alleged.” Thomas told ABC’s “This Week,”
“A lot of them were normal people who were mad. ... We also saw people who
were organized.” Thomas added, “That moment with Jeff Flake on the Hill.
... We talked to one woman who works for UltraViolet who was paid — she
helped steer people in the right ways to be able to confront senators. ...
There were people who were paid by organizations like UltraViolet to try to
harness that energy in a way that would make the viral moments that we
ended up seeing.”

        *Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters Received Grants From Soros Group.
*The Washington
Times
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(10/8, Richardson) reports that George Soros “has been a key funder through
his Open Society Foundations of a left-wing network of protest groups,
including the Center for Popular Democracy, which has received millions of
dollars from the Soros philanthropy and helped spearhead demonstrations
against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.” Soros “grantees involved
with #CancelKavanaugh” also “include the American Civil Liberties Union,
the Human Rights Campaign, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned
Parenthood.” Nonetheless, “Open Society was outraged when Mr. Trump
described the protesters last week as ‘paid professionals’ with
‘professionally made identical signs,’ which he said were ‘paid for by
Soros and others.’”

        *Teacher Posts Tweets About Killing Kavanaugh. *Townhall
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(10/8, Baumann) reports that Samantha Ness, a special education teacher in
Minnesota, was put on paid administrative leave Monday “following a
controversial tweet
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about killing now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.” According to the
Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Secret Service and FBI in Minnesota were
contacted regarding the concerning tweets.” The Washington Times
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(10/8, Ernst) also reports on Ness’ tweets.

        *NBC’s Williams: Potential Cases Could Test Court’s Collegiality
Toward Kavanaugh. *NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams said on NBC
Nightly News
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(10/8, story 6, 0:55, Holt) that Justice Kavanaugh “is lucky that the
Supreme Court is off to a low-key term beginning with no blockbuster cases
on the docket.” Williams added that “two of the Court’s four liberals who
were in town Saturday were also at his swearing in. That’s a sign the
justices will welcome him as a colleague, but that collegiality could be
put to the test if the Court agrees to take up this question, does the
federal law that bans job discrimination on the basis of sex apply to
sexual orientation?” In this term, the Court could also “decide to take up
the legal fight over DACA, that’s a program President Trump wants to shut
down.”

        *WPost’s Ryan: Kavanaugh Could Impact Rulings On Detainees. *Missy
Ryan writes for the Washington Post
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(10/8, Ryan) that Kavanaugh could alter the Court’s handling “of issues
related to wartime detainees, as the Trump administration seeks to assert
broad powers to imprison terrorism suspects indefinitely, legal experts
said.” Ryan says while there are no detainee-related issues now before the
Supreme Court, Kavanaugh’s views “could be pivotal if courts take up the
government’s controversial use” the Authorization for Use of Military Force
“as a legal basis for its campaign against the Islamic State.” The ACLU has
challenged the government’s ability to detain a US citizen suspect of links
to ISIS under the AUMF, but experts say that in a dozen years as a circuit
court judge, Kavanaugh “again and again...gave broad deference to
presidential powers on matters of national security and war.”

        *Patti Davis: Ford’s Testimony Enabled Other Women To Reveal Their
Stories. *Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, writes
in a letter to Ford printed in the Washington Post
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(10/8), “I wonder how you feel now that Brett M. Kavanaugh’s hand — the one
you say clamped down on your mouth when you were 15 — is now on the scales
of justice. I wonder if you feel that everything you went through wasn’t
worth it, that it accomplished nothing. ... I want to add my voice and let
you know that I speak for crowds of women who are only now feeling that
they can speak out and reveal their own stories.” Davis adds that “millions
of hands are stretched out to you in gratitude and in support. Our hope is
that you know what a difference you made.”

        *Dvorak: Black Men Have Long Faced False Accusations. *Petula
Dvorak writes in the Washington Post
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(10/8) that “African American men have always endured the suspicion that
President Trump now fears on behalf of all men.” Dvorak adds that “white
men who haven’t had to worry about being searched because of a busted
taillight or accused of shoplifting while browsing in a store are all
worked up about being falsely accused of rape. ... Whether or not you
really did it, you probably won’t be convicted, and it’s really unlikely
you’ll go to jail. You may even make it to the White House. Or the Supreme
Court.”

        *Gerson Criticizes Media Handling Of Kavanaugh Confirmation. *In
his Washington Post
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(10/8) column, Michael Gerson criticizes the media’s handling of the
Kavanaugh confirmation, arguing that it was “too often perceived as a
participant in the drama.” Gerson writes that this played into the
President’s narrative that the press is “the enemy of the people,” which he
is pushing in order “to discredit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s
report when it is eventually covered in the media.”
Progressives Weigh Kavanaugh Impeachment, Effort To Add Justices.

The New York Times
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(10/7, Savage) reported that “an even greater conflagration may be coming”
following the bitter fight over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The
Times adds that “facing a Supreme Court controlled by five solidly
conservative justices, liberals have already started to attack the
legitimacy of the majority bloc and discussed ways to eventually undo its
power without waiting for one of its members to retire or die.” While “some
have gone as far as proposing...expanding the number of justices on the
court to pack it with liberals,” other call for “trying to impeach, remove
and replace...Kavanaugh.” The Times also reports that “either step would
also face steep odds,” but “many liberals are quietly looking forward to
reviving the fight if they win a House majority and subpoena power, rather
than resigning themselves to waiting for a conservative justice to leave
the court.”

        USA Today
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(10/7, Page) reported that “if Democrats win the House, the Judiciary
Committee will open an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct
and perjury against the justice, according to New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler,
who is in line to be the committee’s chairman.” Nadler “dodged questions
about whether that might mean impeachment proceedings.” Another USA Today
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(10/7, Cummings) story points out that “Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and
Ted Lieu, D-Calif, have said they favor impeachment if further
investigation determines Kavanaugh lied about the allegations of past
sexual misconduct leveled against him by...Ford.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(10/7, King) said, meanwhile, that the fact “some on the political left
were sounding calls to impeach...a month before midterm elections...makes
many mainstream Democrats nervous.” The Washington Times
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(10/7, Richardson) also reported “Senate Democrats moved Sunday to rein in
talk of impeaching...Kavanaugh, a rallying cry of the progressive left that
has drawn interest from some House Democrats.”

        According to Reuters
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(10/7, Hurley), Sens. Chris Coons and Mazie Hirono “distanced themselves
from those demands, saying they are concentrating on the Nov. 7
congressional elections.” Coons, for example, told NBC’s Meet the Press[image:
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“I’m focused looking forward how it is we can heal the Senate after this
bitter and divisive and partisan week or how we work to restore some of the
legitimacy of the Supreme Court now that we have a seated justice confirmed
by just 50 votes without allegations against him having really been
cleared.”

        On ABC’s This Week
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(10/7), Hirono said of Kavanaugh, “Prior to his testimony I had already
decided having gone through his record and dissents that there’s a pattern
that he is not for a women’s reproductive choice, that is true. There’s a
number of other patterns that were very troubling. With regard to this sham
FBI investigation, everybody knows when you interview a small number of
people and not the dozens of others who wanted to be interviewed by the
FBI, that is a sham. It raises more questions than it answers.”

        *Lieu Calls For House Judiciary Committee Probe Of Kavanaugh. *Rep.
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(10/8) if Kavanaugh should be impeached. Lieu said, “That question is
premature, but I think at a minimum what should happen is if the Democrats
flip the House, for the House Judiciary Committee to interview the relevant
witnesses that the FBI did not, to subpoena the relevant documents that the
FBI did not, because really it was an investigation that was incomplete. I
have never seen, as a former prosecutor, a law enforcement or background
investigation where the agency does not interview the main accuser or the
accused. So, I think we need to at least complete the investigation and see
where the evidence takes us.”

        *Trump: GOP Will Benefit From Democrats Calling For Kavanaugh’s
Impeachment. *The Washington Post
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(10/8, Wagner) reports that on the White House lawn yesterday morning,
Trump said “it was ‘an insult to the American public’ for Democrats to
consider impeaching” Kavanaugh “and predicted that Republicans would
benefit at the polls following the chaotic confirmation process.” Trump is
quoted as saying, “The way they really tortured him and his family, I
thought it was a disgrace. ... A brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing
wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats
using the Democrats’ lawyers, and now they want to impeach him.” The Post
notes that also earlier yesterday, Speaker Ryan “said that based on his own
travels over the past several days, he believes the Republican base ‘is
very much activated’ as a result of the Kavanaugh fight.”

        The New York Post
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(10/8, Fredericks) quotes Trump as saying, “The American public has seen
this charade, has seen this dishonesty by the Democrats. And when you
mention impeach a justice of the United States Supreme Court, who was a top
scholar, top student, top intellect, and who did nothing wrong, and there
was no corroboration of any kind, and went through seven FBI
investigations, had nothing to do with any of this stuff.”

        CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins said on CNN’s
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(10/8) that the President is “predicting Democrats will pay a big price in
the midterm elections” over the Kavanaugh confirmation fight. Collins added
that “we’re going to see the President make Brett Kavanaugh front and
center during all of those stops he’s got planned this week. That’s what
he’s been doing so far. Clearly seeing this as a winning political issue
for him.”

        Lara Trump, senior adviser for Trump 2020, said on Fox News’
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(10/8), “We see how ridiculous the Democrats can be. They know no lows.
This they go low and we go high, nonsense. I don’t know where they tossed
that out the window, if they ever actually believed that. We have an
opportunity in November to keep the majority in the House and the Senate
and it is the most important thing that everyone can do that voted for
Donald Trump. If you are happy with the direction of this country under
Donald Trump, vote in the mid-term. Otherwise these people of take control
of things and we do not want to see that.”

        *NYTimes: Trump “Did Not Get The Memo” About Kavanaugh Controversy
Boosting Democrats. *The New York Times
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(10/8, Baker) reports “strategists in both parties anticipated” the fight
over Kavanaugh “could turbocharge Democratic efforts to take over the
House, if not all of Congress. One person who did not get the memo?
President Trump.” Despite the “roiling outrage, especially among women, Mr.
Trump is going on offense, trying to turn the furor into an asset instead
of a liability.” The Times adds that “for Mr. Trump and his Republican
allies, this is a big gamble, with control of at least one house of
Congress and possibly both on the line.”

        *CNN Poll: Independents Disapprove Of Both Parties’ Handling Of
Kavanaugh. *The Washington Examiner
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(10/8, Klein) reports that according to a new CNN/SSRS poll
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“Justice Brett Kavanaugh will take his seat for oral arguments on the US
Supreme Court with a skeptical public, a majority of which opposed his
nomination.” Yet “Democrats may not be able to exploit this fact in the
upcoming elections as much as they hope, because the independent voters
overwhelmingly disapprove of their own handling of the nomination by a
28-point margin.” While the poll found the public opposed Kavanaugh’s
confirmation 51-41, “just 36 percent approved of how” Democrats “handled
the nomination, compared to 56 percent who disapproved,” and “a further
breakdown finds that 58 percent of independents disapproved of the way the
Democrats handled the nomination – compared to 30 percent who approved.”
The Examiner adds “independents also disapproved of Republicans handling of
the matter, but by a narrower 53 percent to 32 percent margin.”

        *Both Parties Claim Election Boost From Battle Over Kavanaugh. *With
both parties claiming their bases are emerging fiercely energized from the
Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle, a number of mainstream media analyses
conclude Republicans may have obtained the greater political benefit as the
midterm election campaigns reach their decisive final stretch. Reflecting a
belief that the issue may be helping Republicans more, for example, the New
York Times
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(10/7, Savage) reported that “for the next few weeks, many Democratic
strategists want to change the subject from the Supreme Court, hoping that
Republican voters’ passions aroused by the...fight will fade.” The AP
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(10/7, Pace), likewise, said “both parties contend the new contours of the
race will energize their supporters” and “both may be right,” but
Republicans “may benefit most in the short term.” The AP adds that GOP
“operatives say internal polling now shows Kavanaugh’s acrimonious
confirmation has given the party a much-needed boost,” and that “surge in
GOP enthusiasm could recalibrate a political landscape that was tilting
toward Democrats throughout the summer.”

        Democratic pollster Doug Schoen, who worked for the Clintons in the
1990s, writes in an op-ed for Fox News
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(10/8) that “Democrats can likely win the House, and (though increasingly
unlikely) the Senate – but for them to maximize their appeal, they need to
focus on what voters care about.” Staying on the Kavanaugh issue, however,
is “a bad mistake, and one that will only redound to the Democrats’
detriment” by emboldening the President “to continue saying what he has
been saying, which is that the Democrats are a radical left-wing party that
stand only for impeachment – both of the newly-appointed Justice Kavanaugh,
and of the president himself.” The Daily Caller
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(10/8, Kruta) notes, meanwhile, that “Democrat strategist Bryan Dean Wright
joined
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‘Fox & Friends’ Monday morning to talk about why he thinks his own party’s
efforts to stop the confirmation of...Kavanaugh are likely to backfire.”
Said Wright, “Democrats will suffer the rightful consequences of using the
victims of sexual assault to advance a political agenda.”

        The AP
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(10/8, Kellman) reports “the Kavanaugh confirmation has blown open the
midterm elections from being a national referendum on Trump’s stewardship
to a raw emotional discussion over the lack of women in power and how to
handle sexual misconduct allegations.” The AP adds that “with Kavanaugh’s
ascension to the high court, Republicans, long dispirited by Trump’s string
of scandals and the prospect of losing their congressional majorities, are
whooping it up,” though it’s “unclear...whether GOP unity is enough to
preserve the GOP power in Congress.”

        According to a New York Times
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(10/7, Cohn) analysis, “the size of the Democratic advantage in the fight
for...the House is unclear,” but “there are recent signs Republicans might
have improved their position, possibly because of the fight
over...Kavanaugh.” At this point, “Republicans remain competitive in the
districts that will decide control,” but the races remain extremely close,
leaving the door open to radically different outcomes.

        With Democrats also claiming their base is now even more energized
ahead of the elections, the Los Angeles Times
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(10/7, King) reported both parties “could be right, at least in part. ...
Greater Republican enthusiasm to vote could help GOP candidates in this
year’s highly contested Senate races,” while “increased turnout among women
could help Democrats trying to flip Republican-held House seats in suburban
areas.” USA Today
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(10/7, Page) also reported “political strategists calculate that
Kavanaugh’s confirmation could boost Democrats’ efforts to gain control of
the House” as well as Republican Senate campaigns.

        Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt said on Fox News’ Special
Report
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(10/8), “I think the rule of thumb here is, if you are playing out of
position, this was a bad week for you. If you are a Republican in a blue
state that’s a bad week for you. If you are a Democrat and a red state is a
bad week for you because what it’s done is brought the intensity up on both
sides. It’s more important for Republicans, though, because they were
lagging. So, this gave them something they needed.”

        *WPost: GOP’s “Angry Mob” Campaign Theme Has Racial Undertones. *The
Washington Post
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(10/8, Costa) reports that “when thousands of furious, screaming protesters
marched toward the Capitol over the weekend,” Republicans “were not alarmed
but elated.” In fact, “weeks ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans
have cast the Trump resistance movement as ‘an angry mob,’ a term used by
many of them to describe a faceless amalgamation of forces that they say
threaten the country’s order and, they hope, energize their voters.” The
Post adds that “the characterization evokes fear of an unknown and
out-of-control mass of people, and it taps into grievances about the
nation’s fast-moving cultural and demographic shifts that Republicans say
are working against them.” The theme “strikes the same notes as earlier
Trump-fanned attention to immigrants, MS-13 gang members and African
American football players protesting police treatment of young black men.”

        *NBC’s Dilanian: States With Varying Populations Should Not Have
Same Weight In Senate. *The Daily Caller
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(10/7, Athey) reported “NBC reporter Ken Dilanian tweeted on Sunday that
states with varying population sizes should not get the same representation
in the US Senate.” Dilanian “suggested in his tweet that it was unfair that
Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday, quoting a
Washington Post article that said, ‘Senators representing less than half
the U.S. are about to confirm a nominee opposed by most Americans.’” Tweeted
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Dilanian, “It may not happen in our lifetimes, but the idea that North
Dakota and New York get the same representation in the Senate has to
change.”

        *Dionne Denounces GOP “Judicial Coup, Decades In The Making,” Calls
For Court Packing. *E.J Dionne wrote in the Washington Post
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(10/7, Dionne) yesterday that the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy is in
tatters” and “conservative forces in the country, led by the Republican
Party, have completed a judicial coup, decades in the making.” Dionne says
“the answer to this power grab cannot be passive acceptance in the name of
being polite,” and “there should now be no squeamishness about the urgency
of enlarging the Supreme Court if Democrats have the power to do so after
the 2020 elections.” Dionne concludes, “Democracy itself is at stake.”

        *Leonard Calls On Liberals To Stay “Angry” About Illegitimate,
“Extremist” Court Majority. *David Leonhardt wrote in the New York Times
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(10/7) Monday, “If you’re not angry yet, you should be.” After winning the
election “with foreign assistance” and being “an admitted sexual molester”
who “mocked victims of abuse,” the President “filled a Supreme Court seat
that his party had stolen with an unprecedented power grab,” and this
weekend, he “finished filling a second seat, through a brutal, partisan
process.” Trump’s two picks “have cemented an extremist Republican majority
on the Supreme Court,” and “this is not how democracy is supposed to work.”

        *Sen. Peters On Avenatti: “We Should Have Focused On The Serious
Allegations.” *The Washington Free Beacon
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(10/8, Griswold) reports Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) “faulted anti-Trump lawyer
Michael Avenatti Sunday, saying that his forwarding of a dubious sexual
assault allegation against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was ultimately not
helpful.” The Free Beacon adds “many Republican senators, such as swing
voter Sen. Susan Collins, cited the absurdity of the [Julie] Swetnick
allegation to help justify their support of Kavanaugh.” Peters told CNN[image:
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“Well you know at some point there were a lot of folks coming forward
making all sorts of accusations. ... It turns it into a circus atmosphere
and certainly that’s not where we should be. ... I think we should have
focused on the serious allegations that certainly appeared very credible to
me that would be our best course of action.”

        *At Victory Gathering Saturday, Kavanaugh Supporters Grateful For
Avenatti. *Axios
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(10/7, Swan) reported that Avenatti “was a hot conversation topic Saturday
night at Trump Hotel, where administration officials gathered for happy
hour with advisers from the outside groups who poured money and energy into
confirming” Kavanaugh. According to “a source at the party,” at one point,
“a senior person at one of the outside groups joked that Avenatti might
have been on the Republican payroll. ‘You guys put Avenatti up to it,
right?’ the person said.”
Foreign Policy
UN Report Warns Time Running Out To Reverse Effects Of Climate Change.

All three networks covered a new UN report warning about climate change. ABC
World News Tonight
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(10/8, story 7, 0:25, Muir) reported on a “a dire new warning about climate
change tonight from a Nobel prize-winning panel of scientists at the United
Nations.” Their report found that by 2030, climate change effects will be
“quote, ‘irreversible.’” According to NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed
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(10/8, story 10, 0:20, Holt), the UN’s report “warns world leaders they
only have 12 years left to take action to keep global temperatures from
rising about another three degrees. A shift of that magnitude could greatly
increase life-threatening heat, droughts and floods.” The CBS Evening
News[image:
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(10/8, story 6, 1:45, Dickerson) said the UN report urges leaders to reduce
the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. CBS (Phillips)
added, “Hitting the new lower target would require ending the use of fossil
fuels in the next 30 years. The cost, an estimated $54 trillion, would be
cheaper they say than dealing with the worse affects of climate change.”

        The New York Times
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(10/8, Plumer) says that in the report, the UN scientific panel said
“putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions would be central for getting
global warming under control. More than 40 governments around the
world...have now put a price on carbon, either through direct taxes on
fossil fuels or through cap-and-trade programs. But many of them have found
it politically difficult to set a price high enough to spur truly deep
reductions in carbon emissions.” The concept of carbon pricing, however,
“received another implicit endorsement on Monday from the Nobel Prize
committee, which awarded Yale’s William D. Nordhaus a share of the 2018
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for, among other things,” making a
case that “the most efficient remedy for the problems caused by greenhouse
gas emissions would be a global scheme of carbon taxes that are uniformly
imposed on all countries.”

        *Trump Mum On Report. *The New York Times
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(10/8, Landler, Davenport) reports that a day after the UN “issued its most
urgent call to arms yet for the world to confront the threat of climate
change, President Trump boarded Air Force One for Florida – a state that
lies directly in the path of this coming calamity – and said nothing about
it.” To the Times, it was “the latest, most vivid example of Mr. Trump’s
dissent from an effort that has galvanized much of the world.”
Media Analyses: Pompeo Has Tense Meeting With Chinese Officials.

Reuters
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(10/8, Martina) reports Secretary Pompeo and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang
Yi “aired their grievances in the open on Monday during a brief visit to
Beijing” by Pompeo, “amid worsening relations.” As they exchanged “typical
diplomatic pleasantries,” the two officials “emphasized the need for
cooperation,” but their remarks were “unusually pointed.” Said Wang,
“Recently, as the US side has been constantly escalating trade friction
toward China, it has also adopted a series of actions on the Taiwan issue
that harm China’s rights and interests, and has made groundless criticism
of China’s domestic and foreign policies.” He added, “We believe this has
been a direct attack on our mutual trust, and has cast a shadow on China-US
relations. We demand that the US side stop this kind of mistaken action.”
Pompeo responded, “The issues that you characterized, we have a fundamental
disagreement. ... I look forward to having the opportunity to discuss each
of those today because this is an incredibly important relationship.”

        To the Washington Post
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(10/8, Fifield), Pompeo “got an earful” from Wang, “effectively becoming
the whipping boy in the increasingly acrimonious relationship between the
two governments.” The Post says Pompeo responded by saying that Washington
and Beijing were stuck in a “fundamental disagreement” that he hoped they
could make some progress on resolving, and lamented Beijing’s decision not
to attend talks between the two countries later this month, saying that the
forum is an “important opportunity” for discussion.

        Wang, the New York Times
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(10/8, Perlez) says, used “unusually blunt language,” and writes that the
“sharp tit-for-tat stripped away the customary veneer of diplomatic
niceties during public remarks.” The Times notes that Pompeo’s visit did
not include a meeting with President Xi Jinping, “apparently another signal
of displeasure by the Chinese.” Along similar lines, the Wall Street Journal
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(10/8, Page, Jeong) says Monday’s meeting highlighted the deterioration in
US-China ties.

        *CNN: Pompeo’s North Korea Trip “Appears To Be Successful.” *Wolf
Blitzer reported on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/8) that Pompeo is back in Washington after “what appears to be a
successful visit to North Korea. Unlike his last visit there, Pompeo was
able...to get together with” North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. CNN’s Brian
Todd added that “Pompeo says Kim...is ready to allow international
inspectors to look at what was once a key nuclear testing site.” The North
“appeared to destroy at least three tunnels there,” but “days later, US
intelligence officials told CNN that all appeared to be a show,” and that
the blasts “may have been too small to really collapse any tunnels.” Pompeo
“says he’s also hopeful Kim will allow inspectors to look at a missile
engine test site, but analysts say there’s a lot the regime is hiding.”
Todd later added
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that Pompeo says a second summit between President Trump and Kim “is,
quote, ‘pretty close.’”
Trump “Concerned” By Journalist’s Disappearance Inside Saudi Consulate.

The CBS Evening News
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(10/8, story 7, 2:20, Dickerson) reported President Trump on Monday
expressed concerns about Turkish claims that Saudi Arabia may have
orchestrated the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who
“was last seen six days ago” inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. NBC
Nightly News
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(10/8, story 8, 1:15, Holt) reported that Khashoggi’s disappearance is
“raising alarms around the world,” and “there are growing fears he was
murdered” inside the Saudi diplomatic compound.

        Fox News’ Special Report
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(10/8) broadcast Trump staying of Khashoggi’s case, “I am concerned about
it and I don’t like hearing about it. Hopefully that will sort itself out.
Right now nobody knows anything else about it, but there are some pretty
bad stories going around.” The State Department has said that it is
“following the situation.” There “has been no further comment from the
Administration,” but some lawmakers are raising alarms. Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-FL) tweeted
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“If this deeply disturbing news report is confirmed, the United States &
the civilized world must respond strongly, and I will review all options in
Senate.” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) “agreed.” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) raised
the issue “privately with the Saudi Ambassador,” reported CNN’s Situation
Room
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(10/8), which similarly said “we’re starting to hear members of Congress
come out and forcefully call on the State Department to try to figure out
what happened here.”

        Politico
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(10/8, Forgey) reports the State Department on Monday confirmed “that it
has spoken with Saudi Arabia’s government regarding” Khashoggi’s
disappearance “and petitioned the Middle Eastern kingdom to launch an
inquiry into his whereabouts.” In a statement, Secretary of State Pompeo
said, “As the President has conveyed, the United States is concerned by his
disappearance,” and “State Department senior officials have spoken with the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through diplomatic channels about this matter.”
Pompeo added, “We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to support a
thorough investigation of Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance and to be
transparent about the results of that investigation.”

        Jim Acosta of CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender.
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(10/8) said the Administration’s “thunderous silence” on the matter “has
raised concerns as to whether or not this Administration shows enough
concern for what happens to journalists around the world.” The Washington
Post
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(10/8, Cunningham, Fahim) reports that the “White House, which has
cultivated close ties with Saudi Arabia and, in particular, with Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” initially “made no public comment about the
disappearance,” although Pompeo “personally questioned the Saudi ambassador
to Washington late last week” and “is said to be paying close attention to
the case while traveling in Asia.” Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan delivered on Monday “his most direct suggestion yet of
potential Saudi culpability in Khashoggi’s disappearance and came after
other Turkish officials have said they believe that he was killed by Saudi
agents inside the consulate.”

        Reuters
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(10/8) reports Erdogan “called on” the government of Saudi Arabia “to prove
its claim that the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been
missing since last week, left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.” According
to Reuters, “Turkish sources said at the weekend that authorities believed
he was killed inside the consulate.” Erdogan told reporters in Budapest,
“We have to get an outcome from this investigation as soon as possible. The
consulate officials cannot save themselves by simply saying ‘he has left.’”

        The AP
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(10/8, Fraser) reports that “a Turkish official said the Saudi ambassador
met with Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal on Sunday,” and “Turkish
private NTV television said Ankara requested permission for Turkish
investigators to search the consulate building in Istanbul.” The AP also
reports that “Turkish officials say the Washington Post contributor was
killed at the consulate and that his body was later removed from the
building, without providing evidence.”

        Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi’s fiance and “the only witness to his
disappearance inside,” recounted to the Washington Post
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(10/8, Morris) “the last moments she saw her fiance before he disappeared
into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to finalize papers for their wedding.”
Cengiz “is frustrated with the lack of information she has received” and
“has not been told whether Khashoggi is alive or dead.” Since Khashoggi
went missing, “some pro-Saudi accounts online have questioned whether
Cengiz is part of a plot to discredit the kingdom.” The Post says if
Khashoggi was in fact killed inside the consulate, “it would represent a
new level of audacity in Saudi Arabia’s clampdown on dissent under Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” who “has shown himself to be ruthless in
confronting any challenge to his power, jailing activists and dissenters,”
despite “painting himself as a reformer.”

        The New York Times
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(10/8, Hubbard) similarly says that as Crown Prince Mohammed “has pushed
his vision for modernizing Saudi Arabia, he has increasingly shown little
tolerance for criticism. He has jailed women’s rights activists, locked up
businessmen and rival royals, and has reached across borders to keep Saudi
expatriates in line, significantly raising the stakes of speaking out, even
in foreign countries.” While Khashoggi’s fate remains unclear, “Saudi
dissidents abroad have little doubt that their government targeted Mr.
Khashoggi because of his prominence.” Even though the country “has long
used fear and enticements to control dissent, the prospect that the state
had killed a well-known dissident writer in a foreign country represented a
startling escalation.”

        In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/8) says Khashoggi’s disappearance “remained a mystery on Monday, but
unlike many mysteries, it is one that could easily be solved.” The Post
says regardless of whether Turkey’s claims or Saudi Arabia’s account of the
incident is correct, “there should be tangible evidence – videos, travel
logs and other documents – to back it up.” The Post demands that any
evidence “should be immediately released,” as any delay “compounds the
crime of those responsible for his disappearance, who will not succeed in
deflecting questions through stonewalling.” The Post also calls the
Administration’s relative silence “concerning,” especially since “Khashoggi
was a resident of the United States, which gives the Trump administration a
basis and an obligation to demand answers and relevant evidence from both
Saudi Arabia and Turkey.”

        The New York Times
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(10/8) editorializes that if “the horrendous possibility” that Khashoggi
“was tortured and killed and his body dismembered by a team of Saudi
agents” is confirmed, “it could hold grave consequences for Saudi Arabia
and its relations with the United States, Turkey and other Western states.”
The Times says that “Turkey should not leave its accusation dangling
without official confirmation or evidence, and Saudi Arabia cannot dismiss
it with blithe denials.” The Times adds that the Administration, “which has
embraced Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a close ally and the power
behind the Saudi throne,” has an obligation “to insist on a prompt and
credible explanation,” because if the “allegations do prove founded – a big
‘if’ – the United States has options, including sharply cutting arms sales
to Saudi Arabia and downgrading relations with it.”
US Rejects Iran’s ICJ Claim To Recover $1.75B In Frozen Assets.

AFP
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(10/8) reports the US on Monday “accused Tehran...of having ‘unclean hands’
as it fought an Iranian court bid to unfreeze billions of dollars earmarked
by Washington for terror victims.” Richard Visek, a State Department legal
official, told the International Court of Justice that Iran’s “support for
terrorism” should rule out its appeal of a US Supreme Court ruling in 2016
that $2 billion should go to victims of attacks blamed on Tehran. “Iran
comes to the court with unclean hands. Indeed, it is a remarkable show of
bad faith,” Visek said, adding, “The actions at the root of this case
centre on Iran’s support for international terrorism… Iran’s bad acts
include supports for terrorist bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and
airline hijackings.” The AP
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(10/8, Corder) says that the incident “at the heart of the case was a
suicide truck bombing of a US marine barracks in Beirut in October 1983
that killed 241 military personnel and wounded many more.”

        Reuters
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(10/8) reports Secretary Pompeo “accused Tehran of misusing the World Court
for political and propaganda purposes.” He said in a statement, “We owe it
to our fallen heroes, their families, and the victims of Iran’s terrorist
activities to vigorously defend against the Iranian regime’s meritless
claims this week in The Hague, where we will show that Iran’s case should
be dismissed.” Last week, the Administration announced that “it would
withdraw from the Amity Treaty after the tribunal ordered the United States
to ensure that sanctions against Iran do not affect humanitarian aid or
civil aviation safety.” Reuters says it will likely “take a year for a
withdrawal from the Amity Treaty to take effect, and Iran’s case against
the asset seizure, which was filed in 2016, will continue regardless.”

        *Mnuchin Among Officials Who Want Iran To Retain Access To
Financial Markets. *The Washington Free Beacon
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(10/8, Kredo) reports that “an internal battle is being fought inside the
Trump administration to save Iran’s access to international financial
markets.” According to the Beacon, some “top” Treasury Department
officials, “including some who hope to save the landmark nuclear
agreement...are said to be pushing for Iran to remain connected to the
SWIFT banking system, an international system that facilitates cross-border
transactions,” and “has helped keep the ailing Iranian economy afloat as
European allies seek to continue doing business with the Islamic Republic.”
The Beacon adds, “While President Trump and top White House national
security officials such as John Bolton have made clear that SWIFT and
European allies must end their business dealings with Iran, a cadre of
Treasury Department officials are said to be standing firm against this
effort.” The Beacon says the Washington Post has “identified Treasury
Secretary Steve Mnuchin as the Treasury official leading the battle to save
Iran.”
US Student Barred From Entering Israel Over BDS Activism.

The Washington Post
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(10/8, Eglash) reports that Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old University of
Florida graduate, was “hoping to start a law degree at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem next week,” but “hasn’t even made it to the
campus.” Alqasem, “whose father is of Palestinian heritage,” has been
detained at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport for six days after
she was “refused entry...on the basis of a law barring foreign nationals
who publicly back or call for any kind of boycott – economic, cultural or
academic – against Israel or its West Bank settlements.” Israel’s Strategic
Affairs Ministry says Alqasem is “a known boycott activist” who “deleted
her social media profiles in an attempt to hide her role in such from
border officials.” According to the Post, Alqasem served as the president
of Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Florida, and
“called for a boycott of Israeli hummus.”
Lavrov Denies Russians Arrested By Dutch Authorities Are Spies.

Reuters
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(10/8) reports Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that four
Russians “detained and expelled by the Netherlands in April on suspicion of
spying had been on a ‘routine’ trip, adding that Moscow did not receive a
Dutch complaint at the time of the incident.” Last week, “Dutch authorities
said...they had disrupted an attempt in April by Russian intelligence
agents to hack the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”
The AP
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(10/8, Isachenkov) reports Lavrov “insisted that the four Russians were on
a ‘routine’ trip to The Hague in April when they were arrested and deported
by Dutch authorities.” Dutch defense officials on Thursday “released photos
and a timeline of the GRU agents’ botched attempt to break into the
chemical weapons watchdog using Wi-Fi hacking equipment hidden in a car”
near the OPCW, which was “investigating a nerve agent attack on a former
GRU spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in Salisbury, England, that
Britain has blamed on the Russian government.”

        *Kudlow: Best Way To Challenge Russia Is Boosting US Energy
Production. *The Hill
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(10/8, Manchester) reports National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow
said in an interview that aired Monday that the US “needs more focus on its
energy sector as a means of challenging Russia.” Kudlow told Hill. TV, “We
are the dominant energy power. We will be producing 15 million barrels of
oil per day in a couple years. We’re passing [the] Saudis. We’re passing
Russia.” He added, “We have so much natural gas...they don’t know what to
do with it. They’re flaring it ‘cause they can’t use it. ... So what does
that mean? Means we have to have infrastructure for pipelines” to “get this
stuff to Europe and challenge Russia’s hegemony on nat gas and LNG
[liquified natural gas].”
China Moves To Shore Up Economy Amid US Trade War.

The Washington Post
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(10/8, Lynch, Paquette) reports that China is “redoubling efforts to
protect its slowing economy from the effects of a trade war with the United
States, providing fresh ammunition for President Trump’s claim that
Washington enjoys the upper hand in the deepening commercial conflict.” The
Chinese moves to boost growth are viewed by the White House “as evidence
that the president’s hard-nosed approach will pay dividends if the
administration keeps its nerve and Chinese officials come to recognize the
cost of their refusal to change course.”

        *WSJournal: US-China Trade Fight Spurs Tariff Dodgers. *The Wall
Street Journal
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(10/8, Yap) reports that as the Administration steps up its tariffs against
China, those seeking to evade the tariffs has also increased. According to
the Journal, misclassification of codes and transshipment – the rerouting
of goods through third countries – are emerging as the top methods employed
to duck tariffs. Commerce Department investigations of possible dumping are
also rising, up 60 percent last year.

        *NYTimes: Some Types Of Steel Hit By US Tariffs Aren’t Made
Domestically. *The New York Times
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(10/8, Ewing) reports that “by imposing a 25 percent tax on steel imports
from the European Union and other allies,” President Trump has forced
customers of companies like Finnish steel maker Outokumpu “to obey a logic
defined by his policies rather than market forces.” While the President’s
“aim is to raise the price of imported steel and force companies to buy
steel from companies in the United States,” many kinds of steel, including
varieties made in Finland, “are simply not available from suppliers in the
United States. And no one is much interested in making them in America
because the demand is too small to justify the investment.”
Domestic Policy
Media Analyses: Trump Enthusiastically Received By Police Chiefs In Florida.

Media reports cast attendees at the International Association of Chiefs of
Police meeting in Orlando as enthusiastic in their reaction to a speech by
President Trump. The story received no attention on the major network
newscasts last night, but garnered extensive, mostly favorable local TV
coverage in Florida. After the event, Trump took to Twitter
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to write, “Every day, our police officers race into darkened allies,
deserted streets, & onto the doorsteps of the most hardened criminals. They
see the worst of humanity & they respond with the best of the American
Spirit. America’s LEOs have earned the everlasting gratitude of our
Nation!” Trump also tweeted
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“We thank you. We salute you. We honor you. And we promise you: we will
ALWAYS have your BACK – now and FOREVER! ...
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America’s police officers have earned the everlasting gratitude of our
Nation. In moments of danger & despair you are the reason we never lose
hope – because there are men & women in uniform who face down evil & stand
for all that is GOOD and JUST and DECENT and RIGHT! “

        WESH-TV
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Orlando, FL (10/8, 4:03 p.m. EDT) reported that “the focus was on law
enforcement” in Trump’s remarks to “a group that typically offers” him
“strong support.” Trump “praised all who wear the shield” and “bashed
politicians who criticize their efforts.” Trump also “condemned cities that
restrict law enforcement from helping federal authorities with illegal
immigrants.” Trump was shown saying, “These sanctuary city policies force
the release of criminal aliens and gang members right back on to our
streets, putting innocent civilians at grave risk. Many people being
killed. I will fight every day for your right to cooperate with federal law
enforcement.” WBBH-TV
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Fort Myers, FL (10/8, 4:09 p.m. EDT) reported that Trump “touched on
everything from the hurricane approaching to Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment
to the Supreme Court. In fact, it was that announcement that drew one of
the biggest applauses...from these police officers.” Trump also “received a
big round of applause from police officers when he told them that the media
doesn’t support them like he does.”

        To the Tampa Bay (FL) Times
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(10/8, Smith), “Trump gave a more somber speech than he does at political
rallies, but he still slipped in some inflammatory asides.” As “many in the
crowd applauded his criticism,” for example, he said “the media does not
report about how much the country loves law enforcement.” Trump also said
“Democrats do not provide adequate support for law enforcement,” remarking,
“The Democrats fight us at every turn, whether it’s law enforcement or
military.” The Times also reports Trump “decried ‘disgraceful’ politicians
who criticize police actions,” adding, “Politicians who spread this
dangerous, anti-police sentiment make life easier for criminals and more
dangerous for law-abiding citizens.”

        The Washington Post
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(10/8, Rucker) also says Trump was “enthusiastically received,” and that
“scores of officers, some of them in uniform, burst into hearty applause”
as he “sought to pit law enforcement officials against the news media” and
“tried to shame the media for, in his view, not sufficiently covering the
extent to which Americans admire law enforcement in their communities.” The
Post reports that “scores of law enforcement officers stood to cheer” after
Trump said, “You don’t hear it from the media, but I can tell you. ... The
people of our country, love you.” The Post adds, “Trump’s speech in Orlando
was an official taxpayer-funded White House trip, as opposed to one of his
‘Make America Great Again’ campaign rallies. But...the political nature of
his remarks was unmistakable.”

        The Orlando (FL) Sentinel
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(10/8, Lemongello, Herrera, Pedersen) says Trump also “told the hundreds of
chiefs from across the country, including Orlando Chief John Mina, a
Democrat, that ‘Democrats fight us at every single turn, whether law
enforcement or military.’” Added Trump, “My administration will always
cherish, honor and support the men and women in blue. ... We are taking
back our streets.” WFLA-TV
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Tampa, FL (10/8, 4:07 p.m. EDT) similarly reported Trump “highlighted the
work his Administration is doing to restore law and order...across the
country,” and showed him saying, “My Administration will always honor
cherish and support the men and women in blue and we are proud to do it.
Working together, we have achieved extraordinary progress in the fight
against violent crime. We understand that reducing crime begins with
respecting law enforcement.”

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Orlando, FL (10/8, 5:04 p.m. EDT) reported that Trump “mentioned the
Orlando police chief by name, who is running for sheriff, but beyond that,
the President didn’t do any campaigning for anyone else because this was
not a campaign stop.” WKMG added that Trump spent much of his address
“praising law enforcement and expressing his support, even honoring heroes.
... He called several on stage, bringing several to their feet.” It also
“wasn’t a surprise that he praised the Republican Florida Attorney General
and Florida Gov. Rick Scott.”

        *Trump Urges “Stop And Frisk” To Stem Violence In Chicago.
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Chicago (10/8, 5:06 p.m. CDT) reported that during his speech in Orlando,
Trump “made Chicago the poster child for out-of-control crime,” and the AP
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(10/8, Riechmann) that he “drew an enthusiastic response from a
law-and-order crowd...advocating the use of ‘stop and frisk’ policing and
saying he has directed the Justice Department to work with local officials
in Chicago to stem violence in the nation’s third-largest city.” Trump is
quoted as saying, “Gotta be properly applied, but stop-and-frisk works.”

        WMAQ-TV
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Chicago (10/8, 4:33 p.m. CDT) said Trump told the police chiefs “he has
immediately directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to come to Chicago.”
Trump was shown saying, “To work with local authorities, to try to change
the terrible deal the city of Chicago entered into with ACLU, which ties
law enforcement’s hands and to strongly consider ‘stop and frisk.’ It works
and it was meant for problems like Chicago. It was meant for it.” WMAQ
added, “While the President often mentioned Chicago when referring to
violence, there actually have been 102 fewer homicides and nearly 500 fewer
shootings this year compared to last.” WLS-TV[image: Image removed by
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Chicago (10/8, 5:01 p.m. CDT) indicated, however, that “the President’s
comments resonated with the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, which
opposed the ACLU agreement and has complained it makes it harder for police
to do their job.”

        Politico
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(10/8, Dobrin) reports Trump “suggested that civic leaders in Chicago
actually might not want to curb the violence in Chicago, but that his
administration would be there to help anyways.” Said Trump, “Let’s see
whether or not Chicago, as an example, locally accepts help. They need it.
... I assume they want to straighten it out. Sometimes I think, ‘maybe, is
it possible that they don’t?’ But we’re going to be there. We’re going to
try and help them.”

        The Washington Times
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(10/8, Mordock) reports “stop and frisk is a method in which police stop,
question and frisk any individual they believe may have committed a crime
or engaging in suspicious behavior.” Trump “said the policy worked in New
York in the late 1990s and early 2000s when it was put into action by
former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who is now Mr. Trump’s personal attorney.”
The New York Post
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(10/8, Fredericks) quotes Trump as saying, “Rudy Giuliani, when he was
mayor of New York City, had a very strong program of stop and frisk, and it
went from an unacceptably dangerous city to one of the safest city in the
country and I think the safest big city in the country, so it works.”

        The Chicago Patch
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(10/8, Fisher) reports “critics of the policy have called it racist, and
say it’s damaged many communities,” and Axios
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(10/8, Basu) that it “was ruled unconstitutional in 2013 by a district
judge who claimed the policy violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of
equal protection, as research shows minorities are stopped at a far higher
rate than whites.” To the New York Daily News
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(10/8, Sommerfeldt), however, “Trump didn’t seem bothered by that detail on
Monday.”

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(10/8, Sweet, Main, Spielman) reports, meanwhile, that “it’s not clear from
Trump’s comments if he was aware that the Chicago Police Department already
conducts ‘stop and frisk,’ but under restrictions stemming from a 2015
agreement.”

        The Chicago Tribune
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(10/8, Byrne, Pearson, Gorner) reports that “asked about Trump’s comments
Monday,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel “pointed to statistics showing gun
violence down in Chicago since 2016.” The Tribune adds that “as he has
repeatedly since Trump took office and began singling out Chicago’s crime
problem, the mayor said he would welcome federal help in the form of agents
from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug
Enforcement Administration and the FBI to cooperate with police on
combating gang crime and gun violence.” However, he added, “the failed
policies he’s talking about have no place for a city that’s working
together with communities, about how to build not only trust, but a
collaborative and cooperative relationship. ... So while resources are
always welcomed...the idea of what President Trump’s talking about is not
only not welcome, it’s antithetical to what we’re working on.”
In Visit To Iowa, Trump To Announce Lifting Of Ban On Summer E15 Sales.

An expected announcement from President Trump during a visit to Iowa
Tuesday that he is lifting a ban on summer sales of E15 – gasoline with 15
percent ethanol – is generally being cast in a positive light, with many
reports calling it good news for Iowa farmers. Some reports, on the other
hand, highlight that by making the announcement weeks before the midterm
elections, he could be seeking to bolster support for Republicans in the
Midwest.

        KYOU-TV
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Ottumwa, IA (10/8, 11:02 p.m. CDT) reported Trump “is expected to announce
that he’s lifting a federal ban on summer sales of high-ethanol blends
during a trip to Council Bluffs, Iowa” on Tuesday. The Des Moines (IA)
Register
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(10/9, Eller) cites “a senior White house official” who said that the
President directed the EPA “to begin rule-making that allows for year-round
use of gasoline with 15 percent ethanol or E15. The announcement sets off a
review that could make E15 available to consumers as soon as next summer.”
The Register adds, “The move should help Iowa farmers and US consumers at a
time when years of record harvests — and Trump trade wars with Canada,
Mexico and China — have helped depress corn and soybean prices.” Similarly,
WHO-TV
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Des Moines, IA (10/8, 10:07 p.m. CDT) cast the move as “good news” for
“Iowa farmers, specifically the ethanol industry.” WHO added that Trump
“has said for months that he was close to announcing the year round sale.
It will mean new buyers for Iowa corn and silage and thousands of gallons
more fuel for refineries to blend and sell.” WQAD-TV[image: Image removed
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Davenport, IA (10/8, 10:04 p.m. CDT) reported that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds
(R) “called the move...a big win for Iowa.”

        The New York Times
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(10/8, Friedman) says the action is “aimed at soothing corn and soybean
farmers in the heartland made anxious by his decision to impose tariffs on
China,” and Politico
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(10/8, Wolff) calls it “a gift to farm state Republicans a month before the
midterm elections.” The Washington Post
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(10/8, Sonmez) reports that while the move “could shore up support for
Republicans in the Midwest,” it also “comes amid fierce opposition from
independent oil refiners and a group of bipartisan lawmakers.” The Washington
Examiner
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(10/8, Siciliano) says the oil industry and refiners argue that allowing
the year-round sale of E15 “will harm consumers’ vehicle engines that are
not compatible with the fuel.”
Trump Says He Had “Good Talk” With Rosenstein, Doesn’t Plan To Fire Him.

Capping weeks of media speculation, President Trump said yesterday he does
not intend to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Washington
Times
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(10/8, Mordock) reports “Rosenstein accompanied Mr. Trump aboard Air Force
One to Orlando” yesterday, and the two “spoke for about 45 minutes
discussing law enforcement officials, border security, violent crime in
Chicago and general Justice Department business, according to White House
spokesperson Hogan Gidley.” White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and
Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed O’Callaghan “were also in
the meeting.” The AP
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(10/8, Tucker, Lemire) says it was their “most extensive conversation since
news reports last month that Rosenstein had discussed the possibilities in
early 2017 of secretly recording Trump to expose chaos in the White House
and invoking constitutional provisions to get him removed from office.”

        Politico
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(10/8, Dobrin) reports “the conversation between Trump and Rosenstein
followed remarks from the president earlier Monday, when he told reporters
that he did not intend to fire the deputy attorney general.” Trump said he
“didn’t know Rod before, but I’ve gotten to know him and I get along very
well with him.” Moreover, “asked directly if he had plans to fire
Rosenstein, Trump replied, ‘no, I don’t.’” Reuters
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(10/8, Holland, Rampton) reports that “before delivering his speech in
Orlando,” Trump also “thanked Rosenstein for being there and noted the
intense media interest.” Trump is quoted as saying, “We had a very good
talk, I will say. That became a very big story, actually. We had a good
talk.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(10/8, story 5, 0:35, Jackson) described Trump as “not bothered by the
blockbuster report Rosenstein denied two weeks ago that he privately talked
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(10/8, story 6, 0:45, Muir) similarly reported, “Everyone at home likely
remembers Rosenstein’s fate had been uncertain after ‘The New York Times’
first reported that he once allegedly wanted to secretly record the
President, and reportedly discussed potentially removing him through the
25th amendment.”

        CQ Roll Call
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(10/8, Bennett) reports Rosenstein “is still the deputy attorney general
after the two men spoke aboard Air Force One,” and the New York Times
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(10/8, Benner) says that “presumably” the two “used at least some of their
time on board to discuss the fact that the deputy attorney general had
offered to secretly tape his conversations with Mr. Trump in the chaotic
days after the president fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, in the
spring of 2017.”

        The Daily Caller
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(10/8, Enjeti) reports Rosenstein and Trump “have long had a tense
relationship after the deputy attorney general appointed special counsel
Robert Mueller to his position.” Trump “has attacked Rosenstein as a
political actor, complicit in what he sees as ‘a witch hunt,’ and for his
failure to reign in Mueller’s investigation.” The New York Post
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(10/8, Fredericks) notes “Rosenstein took over supervision of the probe
after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself, much to the
president’s displeasure,” and USA Today
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(10/8, Johnson, Jackson) reports that “in his brief comments Monday, Trump
reasserted that the Russia inquiry was misguided,” saying, “There’s been no
collusion, folks.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(10/8, Cohen) reports “tensions between Trump and Rosenstein...appear to
have eased,” but “the deputy attorney general will have to respond to
accusations he spoke about secretly recording Trump and invoking the 25th
Amendment to remove him from office.” Along those lines, the Washington Post
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(10/8, Wagner) says that in Congress, “Trump’s closest allies still have
Rosenstein in their crosshairs,” and he is “scheduled to be questioned
later this week behind closed doors by the House Judiciary and Oversight
and Government Reform committees as part of a probe into the FBI and
Justice Department’s conduct during investigations of Trump associates’
suspected links to Russia and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s
use of a private email server.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(10/8, Gurman), among other news outlets, also reports the story this
morning. Breitbart
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(10/8, Spiering) recounts that “Trump postponed a planned meeting with
Rosenstein until after he returned from the United Nations summit in New
York and after the confirmation drama surrounding Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh.”

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(10/8) that Trump “wants to stop the Mueller investigation that’s been at
least 18, 19 months in process. He’s done everything he can to try to stop
it, and Rosenstein is in the way. ... It’s not a good situation for
Rosenstein. And the Mueller investigation is at the heart of the matter,
and the President has been very, very clear about what he wants to do about
that. And that is terminate it.”

        *Democratic Senator Reached Out To Ex-Aide Who Worked For Fusion
GPS About Russia Probe. *The Daily Caller
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(10/8, Ross) reports that an unidentified Democratic senator contacted
former Senate staffer Daniel Jones “in March 2017 about continuing an
investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and
Russian government.” Jones now “operates a group called the Democracy
Integrity Project,” which “is heavily funded by George Soros. He has also
worked with Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele on the
investigation.”

        *The Federalist’s Ginsberg: Democrats Likely To Overreach On Russia
Probe. *Michael Ginsberg of The Federalist
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(10/8) writes that Democrats are likely to overreach in their pressing of
the Russian collusion case as they did in their opposition to Brett
Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. He says the “narrative arcs of the
Kavanaugh confirmation and the Russia collusion investigation are
stunningly similar,” with Democrats first experiencing “a catastrophic
political setback” with their reaction building “to a hysterical
crescendo,” followed by demands for investigations that “produce no
evidence. ... Continued investigations reveal Democratic skullduggery and
abuse of process.”

        *Politico: Trump Attorneys’ Contacts With Mueller Targets Could
“Taint Evidence.” *In a 1,700-word analysis headlined “Trump Team’s Contact
With Mueller Targets Could Taint Findings,” Darren Samuelsohn of Politico
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(10/8) writes that President Trump’s “lawyers have maintained an unusual
level of contact with attorneys representing clients caught up in the
expanding Russia probe, communication that could taint evidence” that
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is collecting. Samuelsohn says the attorneys
are “not being shy about it either,” talking “openly about these ‘joint
defense agreements’ that they say were established to keep them connected
with lawyers tied to the president’s aides, allies and associates.”
Samuelsohn points specifically to interactions with those close to ex-Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort and “longtime Trump operative” Roger Stone.

        *LATimes: Rohrabacher’s Brushes With Russia Probe Complicate His
Reelection Bid. *The Los Angeles Times
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(10/8, Willman) reports that when Manafort pleaded guilty in mid-September,
“court papers cited his lobbying” of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) “as part
of the illicit scheme.” Prosecutors did not accuse Rohrabacher of
wrongdoing, but his “dealings with Manafort, his public defenses of
Russia’s authoritarian president, Vladimir Putin, and his efforts with
advocates pushing Moscow’s agenda in Washington remain a puzzle – and a
potential problem – as he fights for his political survival” in a tight
CA48 race against Democrat Harley Rouda.

        *Gates Sought Social Media Manipulation Proposals From Israeli
Firm. *The New York Times
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(10/8, Mazzetti, Bergman, Kirkpatrick, Haberman) reports that a “top Trump
campaign official,” Rick Gates, in 2016 requested proposals from Israeli
company Psy-Group to “create fake online identities, to use social media
manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary
race opponents and Hillary Clinton.” The campaign’s interest in such
activities “began as Russians were escalating their effort to aid Donald J.
Trump.” The Times notes that no evidence is at hand indicating that the
campaign acted on the proposals.

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(10/8), “It is important to point out the plan did not come to fruition.
There was not this effort made by the Israeli company. The two legal issues
that jump out at you are was this an effort to involve a foreign company,
foreign nationals in an American campaign, which is unlawful. In addition,
the issue is, is the campaign going forward with this project, would it be
condoning a crime, creating false email accounts, false social media
accounts. That, I think, is actually a bigger legal issue than the foreign
nature of it. Was this an attempt to violate the laws relating to hacking
and other sort of electronic crimes? Since it didn’t take place, I think it
would be a very difficult case to make, but it tells you perhaps something
about the mindset of the Trump campaign that they would even consider such
a wacky enterprise.”
Ryan Predicts “Big Fight” Over Trump’s Border Wall After Midterms.

The Washington Post
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(10/8, Werner) reports House Speaker Ryan said Monday there will be “a big
fight” after the midterm elections over funding President Trump’s border
wall, “but he said he doesn’t know how the issue will be resolved.”
Speaking at the National Press Club, Ryan said, “We intend on having a
full-fledged discussion about how to complete this mission of securing our
border, and we will have a big fight about that. We’ll figure out how to do
it in December. I can’t speak to what the outcomes will be.”

        *NYTimes: “New Wave” Of Children Appearing In Immigration Courts. *The
New York Times
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(10/8, Yee, Jordan) reports, “Now that immigration controls have
stiffened...more children than ever are in government custody, for far
longer than they ever have – weeks turning to months in shelters that were
never meant to become homes.” The result, says the Times, is “a new wave of
children in the immigration courts across America. Though the exact figures
are not known, lawyers who work with immigrants said the large number of
migrant children now being held in detention has given rise to a highly
unusual situation: more and more young children coming to court.”

        *California DMV Admits Non-Citizens Improperly Registered To Vote. *The
AP
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(10/8, Bollag) reports that “at least one non-citizen and perhaps many more
were improperly registered to vote in California by the Department of Motor
Vehicles, prompting the secretary of state to demand a new investigation of
the embattled agency Monday.” The DMV said “about 1,500 people may have
been incorrectly registered between April 23 and Sept. 25” because of a
“processing error.” Incorrect registrations will be canceled by the
secretary of state, DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez said.

        *Boston Raid On MS-13 Credited With Reduction In Gang Violence. *The
AP
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(10/8, Marcelo) reports that “police and community leaders in East Boston
and other nearby cities where MS-13 has long been active credit a case
winding down in Boston federal court for the current break in gang
violence.” Nearly “60 members of MS-13 were rounded up by the FBI and state
and local police in January 2016 in what authorities have touted as
nation’s largest single takedown of the notorious Salvadoran gang.”
Attorney General Sessions, on recent visits to New England, “lauded the
raid, which happened under former President Barack Obama, as an example of
why stepped-up enforcement of illegal immigration is necessary.”

        *WPost: Border Crisis Has Taken Over Much Of Azar’s Agenda. *In a
2,600-word piece, the Washington Post
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(10/9, Goldstein) looks at how the border migrant crisis has embroiled HHS
Secretary Azar. Efforts to reunify families “have overshadowed the other
work of the department that Azar arrived to lead in January,” and “also has
put on the line his carefully cultivated reputation as an orderly,
competent executive who understands how to make government work.” The Post
says Azar “was not consulted on the zero tolerance policy before it was
announced in early May, according to people familiar with the events, even
though his department is responsible for housing migrant children who are
on their own.” But he has “adhered to the administration’s talking points,
betraying no hint he was caught unaware by zero tolerance.” (This story
appeared on the Post website last month but is in the print edition today.)
Google Shutting Down Google+ After Data Exposure Uncovered.

The Wall Street Journal
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(10/8, Macmillan, McMillan) reports on its front page that Google exposed
the private data of many users of its Google+ social network but decided
not to disclose the issue, according to documents reviewed by the Journal
and several sources. A glitch let outside developers access private Google+
profile data as early as 2015; Google discovered and fixed the glitch in
March of this year. ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(10/8, story 9, 0:20, Muir) ran a brief item based on the Journal story,
saying that Google “waited six months to report the personal data of up to
500,000 Google+ users had been exposed. ... The company says there’s no
evidence the data was misused, but following the report, Google announced
it is shutting down Google+.”

        The New York Times
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(10/8, Wakabayashi) reports that in a blog post
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Google executive Ben Smith wrote that the company “looked at the ‘type of
data involved, whether we could accurately identify the users to inform,
whether there was any evidence of misuse, and whether there were any
actions a developer or user could take in response. None of these
thresholds were met in this instance.’ ... Up to 438 applications may have
had access to the vulnerability.” The Washington Post
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(10/8, Timberg, Merle) reports that Google “announced it will sharply
curtail Google+, its failing social media offering, limiting it to only
business and other enterprise customers.”

        *US, EU Could Make Online Firms More Responsible For Hosted
Content. *Politico
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(10/8, Gold, Plucinska) reports that US and EU policymakers “are
threatening to dismantle laws that have allowed online giants like Google,
Facebook and Twitter to flourish – a change that could force them to take a
heavy hand in policing what their billions of users see on the internet.”
Legal provisions in both the US and Europe “dating to the web’s early days
allow internet companies to host content posted by users without being
legally responsible for it.” Policymakers are now “starting to chip away at
those protections, driven by growing concern about hoaxes, hate speech and
other online bad behavior.” But Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), “who helped write
America’s tech liability provision in the 1990s, warned that the internet
as we know it would cease to exist if the industry’s legal protections
disappear.”
Obama Endorses Recent College Graduate For Connecticut State Senate.

The New York Times
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(10/8, Pager) reports that for Connecticut State Senate candidate Will
Haskell (D), a recent graduate of Georgetown University, to win, “he would
need to succeed where many young challengers fail: It’s not enough to draw
curiosity and attention; donors, party leaders and, ultimately, voters,
must follow.” He has gotten donors, having “qualified for public financing
in less than a week, raising more than $29,000 from more than 450 donors,”
which earned his campaign $96,000 in election grants from the state. In
addition, he has won endorsements from “Senators Chris Murphy and Richard
Blumenthal, and Representative Jim Himes,” all of whom have campaigned for
him. In addition, “last week, Mr. Haskell was among the 16 Connecticut
Democrats included in Barack Obama’s second wave of 2018 midterm
endorsements.” The Times adds that his momentum “is all the more surprising
given the stature of his opponent, Senator Toni Boucher, 68, a Republican
who flirted with running for governor this year.”
Clintons To Launch Speaking Tour After Midterms.

The New York Post
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(10/8, Fredericks) reports that former President Bill Clinton and former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will embark on “a speaking tour that
debuts in Vegas weeks after the midterms.” On Monday, they announced that
“they will visit cities this year and next across North America in a series
of conversations dubbed ‘An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.’” The Clintons “will hold joint
conversations at the shows and share ‘stories and inspiring anecdotes that
shaped their historic careers in public service, while also discussing
issues of the day and looking toward the future,’” according to Live
Nation, which is producing the tour. The Washington Post
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(10/8, Sonmez) says the Clintons will visit “mainly to friendly territory –
including several large Democratic-leaning cities such as Philadelphia,
Seattle, Detroit and Boston, as well as Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.”
Cancer Research
Study: Medicaid Cancer Care Comparable To Or Better Than Private Insurance.

Medscape
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(10/8, Nelson) reports that a study indicated “cancer patients enrolled in
Medicaid in Washington state received care that was comparable or even
superior to that of patients with commercial health insurance.” However,
“Medicaid patients used the emergency department (ED) during their
chemotherapy at a significantly higher rate, more than double that of
patients with commercial health insurance.” The findings were presented at
the American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium.

        *Socioeconomic Inequalities, Lifestyle Habits Contribute To
Disparities In Cancer Deaths. *U.S. News & World Report
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(10/5, Lardieri) reported that research indicates “socioeconomic
inequalities and lifestyle habits are contributing factors to the
disparities in cancer deaths.” Investigators “used a method known as
mediation analysis to examine why death disparities exist among cancer
patients despite the overall death rate for the disease decreasing across
the United States in recent decades.” The findings “illustrate that,
despite advances in cancer treatments, discrepancies in cancer mortality
result from factors outside of treatment.” The research was published in
JAMA.
NCI Grants $6.3M To Baylor For Research On Prostate, Breast Cancer
Disparities.

Health IT Analytics
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(10/5) reported the National Cancer Institute “awarded $6.3 million to
support researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in understanding the
biological causes of racial and ethnic disparities in prostate and breast
cancers.” The grant, part of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative,
will facilitate research on “the underlying molecular basis for the
aggressive behavior of prostate cancer in African-American men, and uncover
the causes for prostate cancer disparities.” The article adds that Baylor
is “a major participant in the Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of
African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social
Stress, a $26.5 million study funded by NCI, PCF, and the National
Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Saudi Arabia Must Answer For Jamal Khashoggi.”* The New York Times
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(10/8) editorializes that if “the horrendous possibility” that Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi “was tortured and killed and his body
dismembered by a team of Saudi agents” is confirmed, “it could hold grave
consequences for Saudi Arabia and its relations with the United States,
Turkey and other Western states.” The Times says that “Turkey should not
leave its accusation dangling without official confirmation or evidence,
and Saudi Arabia cannot dismiss it with blithe denials.” The Times adds
that the Administration, “which has embraced Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman, a close ally and the power behind the Saudi throne,” has an
obligation “to insist on a prompt and credible explanation,” because if the
“allegations do prove founded – a big ‘if’ – the United States has options,
including sharply cutting arms sales to Saudi Arabia and downgrading
relations with it.”

        *“Coal Is Killing The Planet. Trump Loves It.” *A New York Times
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(10/8) editorial says that a “terrifying new warning” from the UN
scientific panel said “that continued emissions of greenhouse gases from
power plants and vehicles will bring dire and irreversible changes by 2040,
years earlier than previously forecast.” While “the panel warned” that “the
worst impacts can be avoided only by a ‘far-reaching and unprecedented’
transformation of the global energy system, including virtually eliminating
the use of coal as a source of electricity,” the President “continues to
praise ‘clean beautiful coal’ and has directed his Environmental Protection
Agency to reverse major strides undertaken by the Obama administration to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. This is
unbelievably reckless.” The Times adds that while acting EPA Administrator
Wheeler is “clearly a great improvement in moral terms” over former
Administrator Pruitt, his “ideology and policies...are much the same,
weighted in favor of the industries Mr. Wheeler once represented as a
handsomely paid lobbyist.”
Washington Post.

*“The World Has Barely A Decade To Avoid Disaster. We Need To Combat
Climate Change – Now.”* In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/8) writes, “If anything, the IPCC has a habit of understatement. The UN
group issues reports so thoroughly scrubbed that they seem cautious in the
moment and downright timid in retrospect. That gives their latest and most
dire warning added force.”

        *“How Should Admissions Officials Judge Applicants’ Writing
Skills?” *A Washington Post
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(10/8) editorial says that the declining number of college admissions
departments requiring students to submit essay scores from the SAT or ACT
is not surprising, since the essay section has been criticized “as a poor
predictor of how students will perform in college” and “the scoring can be
notoriously unpredictable.” The Post says that while “the SAT and ACT essay
tests have not become obsolete yet,” as “an experiment to evaluate writing
skills and provide admissions departments with better information, they
have largely flopped. Colleges and testing companies need to find better
ways to measure how students construct arguments, marshal evidence and,
well, write.”

        *“Evidence Of What Happened To Jamal Khashoggi Exists. It Must Be
Released.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(10/8) says Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance “remained a
mystery on Monday, but unlike many mysteries, it is one that could easily
be solved.” The Post says regardless of whether Turkey’s claims or Saudi
Arabia’s account of the incident is correct, “there should be tangible
evidence – videos, travel logs and other documents – to back it up.” The
Post demands that any evidence “should be immediately released,” as any
delay “compounds the crime of those responsible for his disappearance, who
will not succeed in deflecting questions through stonewalling.” The Post
also calls the Administration’s relative silence “concerning,” especially
since “Khashoggi was a resident of the United States, which gives the Trump
administration a basis and an obligation to demand answers and relevant
evidence from both Saudi Arabia and Turkey.”

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